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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Climate change deniers out there?

For any and all climate change deniers out there, please see the above photo. From the internet last evening: "Ghorama is an island located in West Bengal, India, that is eroding into the ocean due to a dramatic increase in the sea level. The photographer posed locals on disappearing segments of the island. According to the artist, locals who still live on the larger segment of the island expect to be relocated within the next 25 years." (Photo: Daesung Lee/Sipa Press) There's the glaciers and ice caps melting and then there's this. Ignore any- and everything else if you wish, but you can't deny these things. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/snapshots-1320966603-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fsnapshots-1320966603-slideshow%252Fsnapshots111312-photo-1326482674.html
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh please, there has been NO "dramatic rise in sea level".
It has gone up 1-3mm/year for a few hundred years. There is NO sign of acceleration of the rate.
Look at any real data like that from U of Colorado. In the past couple of years the level has actually gone down !

Look here
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/

Check Wikipedia, you will see the sea level has been rising since the end of the last ice age.
There is no catastroop[he, many islands are rising due to coral growth, like Tuvalu.

Google Axel Morner ahd his research, you will see no global sea level problem.

www.climatechangefacts.info/.../NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf

Some land is subsiding or sinking, but this is geology, not climate.

January 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Anonymous said...

That's right, you can't deny that some islands eventually erode away. Where I live the ocean has been rising about one inch over the last 100 years. About 100 miles north of me the ocean is rising about 12 inches per century adn about 200 miles south of me it is actually falling by about 12inches a century. How can the ocean fall?

I don't know, ask a geologist I guess.

January 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Mo Rage said...

"The seas are rising at a faster rate right now than at any point since at least the era of Julius Caesar, and there is a direct link between this increase and changes in global surface temperatures, according to a new study. Rising sea levels could have major impacts on not just marine ecosystems, but the entire planet, as coastal areas are swamped by encroaching waters."

Sea levels were stable from at least 100 BC to 950 AD, according to Benjamin Horton, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The levels rose a bit for the next 400 years, during a warm period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and then they were stable again throughout the Little Ice Age, which lasted until the late 1800s. Since the onset of the industrial age, sea levels have risen by more than 2 millimeters per year — by far the steepest increase in the past 2,100 years.

“For the last 1,000 years, whenever temperature has changed, sea level has changed,” Horton said in an interview. “It’s a huge body of evidence to say that in the 21st century, with temperatures shown to be rising, that sea levels will rise. That’s a great worry that comes out of this study.”

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-06/rising-global-temperatures-spur-steepest-sea-level-rise-2100-years-new-study-finds

Additonal sources:

http://epa.gov/climatechange/effects/coastal/index.html

http://www.climate.org/topics/sea-level/index.html

January 14, 2012 at 3:19 PM
Anonymous said...

Wikipedia is not a real encyclopedia. It contains many factual errors.

For example: look up 'Mark Funkhouser'. It says he was born in Paden City, WV. That isn't true. He was born in New Brighton, PA, at the Beaver County General Hospital. He was about ten years old when we moved to the country outback of Paden City, & a senior in high school when we finally moved into town. He hated Paden City & has never returned, so I don't know why he insists that he was born there.

Sorry MO, I got off topic. I'll submit this, but its okay with me if you decide not to post it.

January 14, 2012 at 4:54 PM
Mo Rage said...

Wait. I see no references to Wikipedia here and I make sure I don't use them for "scientific" resources.

January 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Anonymous said...

I was reacting to the comments & not the post:

First comment, second paragraph: Check Wikipedia, you will see the sea level ...

January 14, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Mo Rage said...

Okay, great. Thanks for the clarification. As I said, I don't use them as a bonafide source when verifying anything I've said. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't me. And sure, anyone can contest government statistics--though I've also put other sources, too--but Wikipedia is just far too subjective. They do a good job at what they do but they aren't scientists, by any stretch, nor do they pretend to be.

January 14, 2012 at 6:27 PM

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